Hoshida, George

George Hoshida (1907-1985) was born in Japan and at the age of five, his family settled in Hilo, Hawaii. As an active practitioner of Judo, Hoshida was active at the local dojo. As a result of his affiliation with this Japanese marial arts form, on the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor he was arrested by agents of the FBI as a potential saboteur. Unlike most Japanese Americans living in Hawaii, Hoshida was incarcerated for the duration of the war, first at Kilauea Military Camp and Sand Island. He was subsequently removed to mainland Justice Department internment camps at Lordsburg and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Eventually, he was able to rejoin his wife and young daughters, only if they agreed to leave Hawaii for incarceration in the War Relocation Authority camps. Hoshida began a visual diary of his incarceration from his earliest days in prison.